if a group of non-believing parents are happy for a non-believing teacher to teach a group of non-believing children to believe, there is something completely absurd going on. https://simonmlewis.substack.com/p/beyond-belief-can-a-non-catholic

I’ve been writing about religious control of schools for well over a decade and I’ve found that people tend to throw the same arguments out. The most common one of all is the argument that parents want Catholic Schools. 🔗 https://simonmlewis.substack.com/p/pray-tell-why-catholic-schools-in

When I hear parents and teachers tell me that religious education in Catholic schools isn’t really about the dogma, but it’s about the values, I have to try very hard to practice one of those values: self-control. Full article: https://simonmlewis.substack.com/p/beyond-belief-can-a-non-catholic (Link in bio)

Do you need to believe in the ethos to teach it? If you were a fly on the wall of an average Irish primary classroom, chances are very high that at some point in the school day, you would likely see the teacher blessing herself, leading at least one prayer,

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I was on the radio discussing principal burnout on behalf of the National Principals’ Forum (From around the 1:18 mark) https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/drivetime/2025/0624/1520148-drivetime-tuesday-24-june-2025//

Is it time to re-open the bridge and look at Droichead again…but this time to save the teacher supply crisis. https://open.substack.com/pub/simonmlewis/p/ten-years-on-its-time-to-rethink

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